14 Facts About Tom Penn

Tom Penn is an American sports executive who is the chief executive officer of Major League Soccer club San Diego FC.

Tom Penn is a co-founder of the Sports Leadership Institute and a former National Basketball Association executive and ESPN analyst.

Tom Penn started working with ESPN during the 2010 NBA Draft, and during the free agency period of 2010, he operated ESPN's cap machine on SportsCenter, where he manipulated a touchscreen to show potential destinations for LeBron James and other marquee free agents.

Tom Penn has been on ESPN using the ESPN Trade Machine to break down NBA trades.

In 2012, Tom Penn was widely reported as being close to accepting a position as general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers.

Tom Penn is an expert on the NBA salary cap and collective bargaining agreement.

Tom Penn worked with general manager Kevin Pritchard as they restored the Blazers from the "Jail Blazers" era.

Ten months later, Tom Penn was fired after in what one writer called a "drive by" shooting.

In 1999, Tom Penn worked as part of prospective NBA owner Michael Heisley's NBA acquisition team.

Tom Penn founded the company in 2011, and they organize the Global Sports Summit in Aspen, Global Sports Management Summit in Chicago and Collegiate Sports Summit in Santa Monica.

Tom Penn worked mostly as a criminal defense attorney and acted in 20-plus cases including murder, armed robbery and other serious felony cases.

Tom Penn was a basketball player agent and organized tours of Europe with free agent players.

Tom Penn has been a member of the Board of Governors of St Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2002.

Tom Penn serves on the board of directors of the Children's Cancer Association, a Portland-based charity that provides services and programs to children and families who are traumatized by cancer and other diseases.